Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Latest Study Claims Prayer Can Heal the Sick

Source: Daily Mail

The power of prayer really can help to heal the sick, an international study has found - especially if the well-wisher is standing near the person they are praying for.

Researchers say the vision and hearing of patients in their tests improved after healing practitioners prayed for them.


One elderly woman who could not see a person's hand when they held two fingers up in front of her face from a foot away is said to have been cured after a healer placed their hands over her eyes and prayed for less than one minute.


The tests were carried out by a team from Indiana university, led by religious studies Professor Candy Gunther Brown, who were looking into 'proximal prayer' - or prayers near the patient.

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